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HAY LADDER.

N0. 367,636. Pa

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WILLIAM w. JAcoB AND 'rIAIoMAs n. ri/irren, or sALTsnnne, PENNSYL-vANIA.

HAY-LADDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,636, dated August2, 1887.

Application filed November 27, 1886. Serial No. 220,055. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: n being provided with bracke'ts j) p Von itslBe it known that we, VILLIAIWI XV. JACOB lower l'ace near its ends,which brackets it and TIIoMAsB. PAr'roN,citizens of the United over thehind bolster and assist in holding the States, and residents ofSaltsburg, in the ladders in place on the running-gear.

county of Indiana and Stateof Pennsylvania, B B are the top rails of theladders, which 55 haveinvented certain new and useful Improvetop railsare connected at their front ends by ments in Hay-Ladders; and we dodeclare the a transvere bar, B', said bar B' being supfollowing` to be afull, clear, and exact descripported 011 hollow iron sleeves, d d, bybolts c, tion of the inventiomsuchas willenableothers passed through thebottom rails, sleeves, and

1o skilled in the art to which it appertains to crossbar. The top rails,B B, are also con- 50 make and use thesame, reference being had tonected by bolts c, passed .th rough interposed the accompanyingdrawings, and to letters or hollow iron sleeves d, to the reareross-barf ligures of reference marked thereon, which and theintermediate erossbars g h of the lad form a part of this speeication. fders.

[5 Figure l ofthe drawings is arcpresentation L designates iron braces,which are secured 65 ol' a plan view, the front and rear racks being tothe upper face ofthe top rails, B B, by the turned down. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudibolts `@,aud to their respective crossbarsby the nalsection on the line x x, Fig.1,showing the same bolts that secure thecrossbars to the racks elevated. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical bottomrails, A A. rlhe front wheels of the section en the liney y, Fig. 2.Fig. L is a simrunninggear are protected by fender-sl l, se- 70 ilarsection on the line L' c, Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 cured to the crossbars j/h, yand to the under is a detail View. face of the front transverse bar,B'; Stakes J Our invention relates to wagonladders; and extend upwardlyfrom near the ends ofthe front it consists in the construction and novelcomb0lster,and are connect-ed at their upper ends bination ofparts,ashereinafterfullydescribed to the inner edges ofthe top rails, B B.

and claimed. At the front end the bottom rails are pro- Iteferring byletter to the accompanying vided with a rack, H, having the crossbar atdrawings,'a designates the front bolster of a its lower end pivoted inbearings H, secured wagon-gear, the same being detached from the to thelower faces of the bottom rails, A A.

gear, it being sufficient for the purpose of il- The frame of the frontrack is iliade of wood lustration to show only a part of the runningbentto the bowed shapeshown,aud faced over gear. the bend by an iron strapto give it the requi- Aand A designate the longitndinal bottom sitestrength. Below the bend this rack is rails of the wagon-ladders, whichrails are seprovided with metal half-loops l, which are cured near theirfront ends to a short transdesigned to engage the front end of thespring- 85 verse bar, E, which is in turn secured upon pole when thelatter is in place. blocks or risers b b, which rest upon the front Tothe middle ofthe rear cross-bar. f, is hinged bolster,a, the said bottomrails, transverse bar, the rear rack, G, which is provided near its andrisers being connected together and to npperend with crescent-shapedarms N,which 4o the frontbolster, a, by vertical bolts c c and searmsare designed to engage the rear end of 9o curing-nuts, so that the frontends of the botthe spring-pole to assist in holding the load in tomrails are higher than their rear ends, in place on the ladders. orderthat the front wheels ofthe wagon may O O designate bows, which aresecured to run under said bottom rail in turning the the propercross-bars and extend over the wagon around, or should the rear wheelsslipV hind wheels of the running-gear. Braces l? P 95 around when thewagon is being drawn along are secured. to the bottom rails and extendup a hillside road. over the bows O O, and are secured at their m mdesignate short blocks or pieces towhieh upper ends to the top rails',so that the hind the transverse bar n, which rests upon the wheels areamply protected from the load. 4o hind bolster of the wagon, is secured,said bar Braces R are used at the bows O O to prevent roo the hay on theladders from eomingin Contact with the spokes of the hind Wheels.

Having described this invention, what We claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s

l. The Combination, with the bottom rnis, transverse bars, and toprails, of the bolts e, sleeves d, and `braces L, substantially asspecied.-

2. The combination, with thebottom mis, A A, the top rai1s,B B, and thetransverse bars of the ladders, of the rigid inclined braces L

